Digital video consumption is at an all-time high, with mobile viewing replacing TV as the primary screen for most. A study conducted by Google experiments with innovative ad placements to answer the question: how much branding is too much branding?

Spotify has bowed down to major record labels and has agreed to hold new releases from their free tier for up to two weeks, giving paid subscribers priority access. The industry hopes this will give free listeners an extra incentive to pay up for a subscription.

Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, released in February of last year, has now been streamed over 3 billion times worldwide. It has just hit 1.5 billion streams in the US, making it the first album to be RIAA-certified platinum from streaming alone.